Documents

Document date

1429 Seleucid (30 August 1117–18 September 1118 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

NB: T-S NS 226.9–11b are all bifolios in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, probably from the same court ledger.

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תגים

• ledger

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Love poem in Judaeo-Arabic, for a woman "Sitt al-Nās" (mistress of mankind). Same hand: T-S NS 292.38 (Judaeo-Arabic), T-S NS 91.52 (Judaeo-Arabic), T-S 8K13.6 (Judaeo-Arabic), T-S Ar.37.120 (Judaeo-Arabic), T-S NS 143.81 + T-S NS 235.135a + T-S NS 235.135b (Hebrew).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

At the bottom of verso the sender blames the entire disaster (al-muṣība) on Abū l-Maʿālī. Seems to be written as poetry, or versified at least.

תגים

• hostile

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

, the Gaʾon (l. 11), and letters to ‘the two princes’ Ḥesed al-Tustarī and someone else. Uncited in the literature.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Aharon and Shelomo. T-S NS 322.101–17 all belong to the same dossier as Gil, Palestine, #521–23.

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תגים

• unedited 11th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) Join: Alan Elbaum

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תגים

• circular
• dammuh

דיון אחד

Two pieces of one ketubba. Bride: Umm al-Faraj, the virgin. Groom: Toviah b. ___. The dowry list includes a gold drop choker (worth 5 dinars), a gold wristband (worth 5 dinars), a pair of silver anklets, red Chinese silk, a coat, five shirts, a gown, a scarf, two kerchiefs, eight coloured pillows, a lightweight garment, a Tabari carpet, a cooler, and a cup.

תגים

• ketubba
• marriage
• material culture

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Few fragments of a rotulus, joined together. written by the scribe who is known to write many such rotuli for the owner known as Ibn al-Baqra (early 11th century). On recto there is the end of a responsum on Giṭṭin 32 regarding the cancellation of a geṭ.

תגים

• geonim
• responsa

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: probably 1132. Although only a small section from the beginning and the end of the letter with very little other content has been preserved, the very fact of a connection between the writer and the recipient is, according to Friedman, noteworthy.

תגים

• ib4
• india book

תעתוק אחד

Document date

8 Adar II 1445 Seleucid (5 March 1134 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Wife: Sitt al-Bahāʾ bt. Yakhin. Husband: Yefet b. Saʿadya.

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דיון אחד

Document date

Monday, 4 Ṭevet 1378 Seleucid (25 December 1066 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Shela b. Yefet Ibn al-Sukkarī acknowledges having receiving from his paternal uncle Ḥalfon b.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

; not wishing to involve a young man in the affair; summoning R. Ṭoviyya al-Kohen and 3 Jews (as a court). NB: This transcription is currently paired with the incorrect image/description

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She refused to let the elders into her house as she had been advised, but later opened the door after all. However, the inventory was not taken away.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• legal query
• responsum
• widow

תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים

Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bride: Milāḥ bt. Asʿad Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Groom: Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet b. Yiṣḥaq.

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תגים

• dowry
• marriage

תעתוק אחד

Document date

29 Marḥeshvan 1541 Seleucid (18 October 1229 CE)

An incomplete deed of a sale of one quarter of a house by a public leader, Ibn al-ʿAjamī, to the wife of a money assayer for 1,000 dirhams.

תגים

• house
• sale
• women

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

The testimony describes how Shamun b. al-Muzanjir was attacked by his brother, ʿImrān, while sewing in the store of Simḥa.

תגים

• testimony
• violence

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

middle decade of Adar 1528 Seleucid (1217-02-20/1217-02-29 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 236, 237.) CUL Add.3339a–c all have the same reuse on verso (biblical story of Joseph).

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תגים

• register

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1241–1242 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The accounts contain only the liturgical name of the week, that of the collector (jābī al-mezonot, changing every week), the sum delivered by him, the amount spent on bread (in the seventeeth week: 28 1/4 out of 54 dirhems) and the balance.

דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Requesting that Aharon look after a blind man named Shabbat who claimed to have been cheated of his allocation. Verso: A woman pawns pieces of her trousseau against loans.

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תגים

• disability
• disability: vision
• slave

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

481 Hijrī (27 March 1088–15 March 1089 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale dated December 481/1088 (original document), in which Khulayf b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAlī sells a house to Hārūn b. Khulayf b. Hārūn, the perfumer, a Jew.

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תגים

• abu sahl levi
• dimme
• moshe b. levi
• yedutun ha-levi

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

481 Hijrī (27 March 1088–15 March 1089 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale dated December 481/1088 (original document), in which Khulayf b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAlī sells a house to Hārūn b. Khulayf b. Hārūn, the perfumer, a Jew.

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תגים

• abu sahl levi
• dimme
• moshe b. levi
• yedutun ha-levi

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The building is located on "Milk Street" (Zuqāq al-Laban) running between the Palestinian and Iraqi synagogues in Fustat.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of a father to his son Ibrāhīm in Damietta, to be delivered to the shop of Dāʾūd al-Ṣabbāgh or Surūr or Yaʿqūb the Jews (يصل هذا الكتاب الى دمياط المعمورة الى دكان داود الصباغ او سرور او يعقوب اليهودي يسلمه امانة مودة لابرهيم من عند والده).

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תגים

• pregnancy
• to edit

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet has purchased a quarter-mann of muql (this refers either to the gum resin called bdellium OR to the edible fruit of the doum palm — see Bos et al, Marwān Ibn Janāḥ, entries 294, 521, and 1044).

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תגים

• yefet b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

At the top of document someone added in Judaeo-Arabic דכרת (the same word that begins the Arabic-script letter), and at the bottom is the Hebrew formula שלומו יגדל "may his peace increase," One of the people in the letter is named Hilāl b. Aharon Ibn al-Shammāʿ. (Information from Naïm Vanthieghem and Oded Zinger)

תגים

• bialphabetic
• letters of complaint
• money
• pawn
• women's letters

דיון אחד

The last of the families, the house of "the Meʿutad", is a famous family - the last one mentioned in the list, Ovadiah, is called "Negid Ereṣ Yisrael vi-Yehuda", and was appointed to this position by Ṣalāḥ al-Din - PGPID 9436.

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menaḥem the agent of Sittūna bt. [...] Ibn al-Luʿayyiba (בן אללעייבה), who sues Mevorakh b. [...] concerning accounts and riqāʿ (pl. of ruqʿa) which Menashshe (her deceased father or relative?)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

The shelfmarks ENA 3077.8–13 all appear to be related, including pen trials, accounts, and poetry in Ladino.

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1500–1900 CE

On the recto, the student practiced the phrase: "The towns/countries came and gathered all in the square - Sunday" (אלבלדאן יגו ויתגמעו אלכל פי אלמידאן - יום א).

תגים

• 16th c or later
• early modern

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of Arabic accounts that were cut into small sections for a student's notebook of alphabetical practice. The extent to which they represent joins and/or related documents merits further examination (ENA 3264.1-2 seem to be the most likely candidates for a direct join).

תגים

• arabic reused

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of Arabic accounts that were cut into small sections for a student's notebook of alphabetical practice. The extent to which they represent joins and/or related documents merits further examination (ENA 3264.1-2 seem to be the most likely candidates for a direct join).

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תגים

• arabic reused

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Yūsuf al-Surrī. The name Saʿīd Maḍmūn the Blind appears at the bottom of verso; unclear if this is the name of the writer.

תגים

• appeal
• late ja

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Monday, 5 Tammuz 4889 Anno Mundi (24 June 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Benaya and his son who owe 300 dinars and a deed of release to Shelomo Ibn Sunaynāt ha-Kohen acknowledge their two debts before the latter's agent, and they will hand over the deed of release after they receive their own deed of release concerning the merchandise that they brought on Ibn Sunaynāt's behalf for Abū Saʿd al-Damīrī. (Information from Goitein's attached edition.)

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תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(perhaps listing a man's daughters); someone 'now alive'; Wednesday the 29th of a month. AA. ASE.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

So maybe this person was being charged for the capitation tax again even though he has already paid in Fustat. The sender asks for "good news" from the addressee regarding this person.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Munajjā has received from Hiba al-Zaki 108 qinṭārs of "red glass" (zujāj aḥmar) and 105 qinṭārs of "local glass" (zujāj baladī).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Same hand as the previous document." For Dār al-Maqādisa and Dār b. Pineḥas. Expenses include: refuse removal; transport of materials; construction; supervision; nails; plaster; baskets; and more.

תגים

• construction

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Sarah was represented by her unnamed grandmother in arranging the terms of her engagement. Although it is unclear if Sarah eventually married Shelomo, for her c. 1831 ketubba and marriage with Yiṣḥaq b.

תגים

• betrothal

תעתוק אחד